Some highlights from the beginning of the week of the Republican covention:<\/p>\n
A couple of essays regarding the incompetence and bias<\/a> of the media, as well as their reliance on pre-determined storylines<\/a>.<\/p>\n Transcripts of Rudy Giuliani<\/a>‘s and John McCain<\/a>‘s speeches. Notice how they’re focusing on the current<\/i> war, not the one from 30 years ago. McCain: “Our choice wasn’t between a benign status quo and the bloodshed of war. It was between war and a graver threat.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some highlights from the beginning of the week of the Republican covention: A couple of essays regarding the incompetence and bias of the media, as well as their reliance on pre-determined storylines. Transcripts of Rudy Giuliani‘s and John McCain‘s speeches. Notice how they’re focusing on the current war, not the one from 30 years ago. … Continue reading “Polyticks”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}